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US 10,382,414 B2Granted
Method, system and recording medium for service account authentication
AssigneeCamp Mobile Corporation
InventorSeung Phill Lim
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Abstract
Disclosed are a method, system, and storage medium for service account authentication. A user authentication method includes managing authentication information associated with a service account of a user and social information about the user; and performing user authentication with respect to the service account through a stepwise procedure in which an authentication method using the authentication information and an authentication method using the social information are combined.
Claims16
A method for authenticating a user terminal requesting access to a social network service provided by a computer server through a communication network, said method comprising:
- managing, in an authentication system in communication with the communication network and having a processor, authentication information associated with a service account of a user for the social network service and social information created by the user in response to the user using the social network service;
- and
- performing, in the authentication system, user authentication for determining whether to grant or deny said requested access by the user to the social network service using the authentication information and the social information with respect to the service account;
- wherein the authentication information associated with the service account includes initial join details initially registered to create the service account or change details about the initial join details, and the social information includes both service use information of the service account and personal relationship information established on the social network service in response to the user using the social network service;
- wherein the performing of the user authentication comprises:
- performing a primary authentication procedure using the initial join details or the change details about the initial join details;
- performing, in a stepwise authentication, a secondary authentication procedure using both the service use information of the service account and the personal relationship information in response to an authentication failure of the primary authentication procedure;
- wherein performing the user authentication using the personal relationship information includes,
- extracting, from the personal relationship information, at least one other user having established a relationship with the user through the social network service;
- requesting the other user to verify a personal relationship with the user;
- and
- processing the authentication of the user based on a result of verifying the personal relationship between the user and the other user, without requiring the user to input information relating to the user authentication.
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A user authentication system for authenticating a user terminal requesting access to a social network service provided by a computer server through a communication network, the system comprising:
- a network interface configured to enable the use authentication system to communicate with the user terminal through the communication network;
- a manager configured to manage authentication information associated with a service account of a user for the social network service and social information created by the user in response to the user using the social network service;
- and
- an authentication processor configured to perform user authentication for determining whether to grant or deny said requested access by the user to the social network service using the authentication information and the social information with respect to the service account;
- wherein the authentication information associated with the service account includes initial join details initially registered to create the service account or change details about the initial join details and the social information includes both service use information of the service account and personal relationship information established on the social network service in response to the user using the social network service;
- wherein the performing of the user authentication comprises:
- performing a primary authentication procedure using the initial join details or the change details about the initial join details;
- performing, in a stepwise authentication, a secondary authentication procedure using both the service use information of the service account and the personal relationship information in response to an authentication failure of the primary authentication procedure;
- wherein performing the user authentication using the personal relationship information includes,
- extracting, from the personal relationship information, at least one other user having established a relationship with the user through the social network service;
- requesting the other user to verify a personal relationship with the user;
- and
- processing the authentication of the user based on a result of verifying the personal relationship between the user and the other user, without requiring the user to input information relating to the user authentication.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions to control a computer system to perform user authentication of a user terminal requesting access to a social network service provided by a computer server through a communication network, the instructions comprising:
- managing authentication information associated with a service account of a user for the social network service and social information created by the user in response to the user using the social network service;
- and
- performing a user authentication for determining whether to grant or deny said requested access by the user to the social network service using the authentication information and the social information with respect to the service account;
- wherein the authentication information associated with the service account includes initial join details initially registered to create the service account or change details about the initial join details, the social information includes both service use information of the service account and personal relationship information established on the social network service in response to the user using the social network service;
- wherein the performing of the user authentication comprises:
- performing a primary authentication procedure using the initial join details or the change details about the initial join details;
- performing, in a stepwise authentication, a secondary authentication procedure using both the service use information of the service account and the personal relationship information in response to an authentication failure of the primary authentication procedure;
- wherein performing the user authentication using the personal relationship information includes,
- extracting, from the personal relationship information, at least one other user having established a relationship with the user through the social network service;
- requesting the other user to verify a personal relationship with the user;
- and
- processing the authentication of the user based on a result of verifying the personal relationship between the user and the other user, without requiring the user to input information relating to the user authentication.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.